I arrive a bit early at the luxurious country club and immediately run into the vivacious Neilie Dunn, JTT’s dynamic director of marketing. If her name sounds familiar, it’s because she was the driving force in getting “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” here in Savannah last year.

Neilie is hanging out with blonde beauty Victoria Turner, who says she is having a great day even though her pedometer tells her that she has only walked 10,000 steps — she usually walks 35,000. Maybe all that walking or handling Duke, a 122 pound Labrador, is the reason she looks so fantastic!

Next I hustle the Turners together for a quick family pic with Victoria’s attractive fiancé, Michael Oakes, then chat with JTT’s Project Administration Manager Kelly Walsh. Taking a hiatus from the Savannah Derby Devils, Kelly is expecting twins with super cool Danny Hendrea.

When I ask Danny, an electrician with OECI, to tell me something interesting, I get my coolest answer of the night! “I write comic books. I went to SCAD for sequential art — it’s anything that has a sequence of images, like story boards for movies to video games.”

After learning my something new for the day, I snag Jim Turner for a pic with charismatic chaplain Roe Porter, a manly dude with a voice that makes me want to buy whatever he is selling, and I’m proud to say that it’s religion.

Next is a flurry of photos with some slightly resistant photo peeps like David Parrish, Pam and David Young with Suzie and Steve Scherz, standing in front of two country dudes who make me smile — Ross Etheridge and Keith Daniel, aka Keith & Ross.

Red-headed Ross picks up his banjo, tells me he listens to Pearl Jam and Luke Bryan while Carrollton native Keith strums away on his guitar. The guys are frisky, fun and have that Southern something that makes you like them before they even sing a note.

After a quick hour of mingling, it’s time for some serious snacking and award winning for two men who exemplify Turner family qualities. A shy Matthew Price wins the Carol Daniel Carter Award, the 2012 JT Turner Construction Employee of the Year, and dynamic Danny Shealy wins the George Lee Hutson Award.

Let’s talk about Danny Shealy. Every once in while you can look out across a room and you find that someone who makes you pause and look back. When you meet the silver-haired character, you already know you are going to start shaking your head, smiling and then laughing at whatever it is he is talking about. He’s that guy.

Back in the lobby, I pause the club’s Director of Catering Private Events, Ashley Francell to commend on the exemplary peeps like Vic Fields and Cheetara Norman who have graciously hydrated and fed me the culinary feast that Chef Chandler Echols has prepared.

I must admit the chef is quite attractive, slightly taciturn and isn’t chatty until I ask about his love of red fish and sea trout fishing. Speaking of talkative — I have met my match! Terri Holzl, a registered nurse in Radiation Oncology at the Lewis Cancer Research Pavilion, is my liveliest lady of the night!

The beautiful brunette admits that she is a “professional donator,” loves to bike ride on her Trex and is obviously slap crazy about her manly husband Mark Imbrigiotta.

Beside the happy couple is an Irishman I haven’t seen since last year’s Candler Clays event. John Haslam is looking fierce! With a full beard streaked with a little silver, I ask the cool cat what’s up with the facial-hair fullness. He smiles and says, “My wife likes it.” His wife Laura hands over her iPhone with a pic of him wearing a skull cap. OK — I get it, wear it everyday!

With close to 100 employees, spouses and industry friends mingling at one of the company’s “big family functions,” I make my way over to say to goodbye to one of Savannah’s finest families. Between the Karacostas, the Polks and the Ganems — this may be my next favorite family!

P.S. The next time you see Danny Shealy — ask him about his fishing outfit!

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